Senior Rail Transportation Planner

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About the role

  • Senior rail planner leading sustainable transit, LRT, BRT, and passenger rail projects for Arcadis. Managing clients, multidisciplinary teams, feasibility studies, and rail planning solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and nurture relationships with key public and private sector clients
  • Identify business development opportunities, new prospects, and strategic client markets
  • Prepare proposals and present solutions to prospective clients
  • Lead and manage rail planning projects and supervise multidisciplinary project teams
  • Oversee project execution, technical tasks, reviews, deliverables, and compliance with industry standards
  • Support delivery of LRT, BRT, rail feasibility studies, and operations and policy analysis
  • Provide expert guidance and technical oversight for innovative rail and transit solutions
  • Lead major rail studies assessing project need, justification, alternatives, and sustainable transportation systems
  • Incorporate emerging rail transportation and transit planning trends and technologies
  • Implement and monitor quality control processes
  • Keep current with Ontario and eastern Canada transportation policies, standards, market conditions, and trends
  • Mentor engineers and planners and build team capability

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Planning, Civil Engineering, or a related field
  • Registered Professional Planner (RPP) or Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) certification or equivalent
  • 20+ years of relevant planning/engineering experience, including leadership of passenger rail transportation solutions
  • Recognized expert in rail planning
  • Proven project success on various-sized projects, including effective direction of project teams
  • Advanced technical knowledge in transportation planning/engineering
  • Strategic problem-solving skills
  • Strong professional consulting skills, including project management, client relationship management, and commercial acumen at senior management levels
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including professional presentations
  • Excellent time management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
  • Preferred: experience leading rail transportation master plans for major clients
  • Preferred: experience winning and leading mid- to major-size projects
  • Preferred: understanding of local public and private sector client needs and policies

Benefits

  • Skills-based career development approach
  • Meaningful work delivering sustainable solutions
  • Equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging commitment
  • Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer
  • Supportive workplace empowering employees to be their best

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$110,000 - CA$160,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

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